New Cross Shopping Centre

I’m totally in agreement with both of the other reviews for this place — it’s so bad. The most useful thing in here is probably Argos, and that’s saying something.
At one point there was an upstairs indoor market where loads of little stalls had various things on offer, from trinkets to paintings, and it was quite popular. Since that disappeared I’ve probably made an appearance in here once, and that was to walk through to get to the other side.

The New Cross Shopping Centre has been in Hamilton for years and years. It used to house a massive Somerfield store and a butchers, and not much else. Newly refurbished in 2004, it now holds the same butchers, no Somerfield and… well, not much else. There is a nice new shiny floor and automatic doors though, and a sit in Greggs the Bakers. That’s about the highest accolade i can give the place.
I still tend to walk through here though, and i have no idea why. Perhaps to see if it has magically turned into somewhere with good shops overnight, or maybe just to remind myself what a pointless place it is. Every single tome i have been, it’s literally like a ghost town, with the majority of people here being employees.
They did try to make the upstairs section into a market once, but that quickly petered out, and so the cycle of shops opening and swiftly closing three weeks later began, and hasn’t stopped since.
There is a big Savers in here which is good for toiletries, and an Argos, a Peacocks and Bön Marche, but other than that… it’s empty.
Give this one a miss… although if it’s raining it gives a good bit of shelter between the bus station and the Regent Centre… that’s it’s only saving grace!